Loom-cleaning device



Dec. 29 ,l 1925. 1,567,540

W. L. NOBLITT LOOM'GLEANING DEVICE Filed Oct. I5., 1922 gnoe'nfoz Patented Dec. 29, 192g.

UNITEDv STATES 4PATENT .OFFICE WILLIAM' L. NOBLITT, OF SHELBY, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIG-NOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM N. DORSEY. OF SHELBY, NORTH CAROLINA.

"Loom-CLEANING DEVICE.

application mea october '3, 1922. serial No. 592,061.

To aZZ whomzt may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. NoBLrrr,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Shelby, in the county of Cleveland and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loom- Cleaning Devices, of which the ollowingis a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in loom cleaning devices and is especially designed to clean the filling fork grate'on weaving looms.

It is a well known fact to those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains,

that when the lilling'fork has dust or lint on it, it causes thin places in the fabric.

Through the use of my invention, the filling iork is kept free of dust, dirt or lint accumulations and hence the above objects are overcome or eliminated. l

My device is also a great labor saving instrument as the cleaning oit the filling fork has heretofore been done by hand.

WV ith the foregoing and other objects in view that will appear as the nature Vof my invention is betterunderstood, the same consists in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts illus trated in the drawings and more especially pointed out in the appended claim.

Tn the accompanying drawings, which are forv illustrative purposes only and are thereorenot drawn to scale:

Figure l is an elevational view, partly in section, illustrating the application of my invention..

Figure 2 is a detail perspective view of the cleaning1 device and Figure 3 a detail longii tudinal section.

Referring to the drawings for a more articular description of my invention, an in which drawings like parts-are designated by like reference characters throughout the several views, A. designates the framel of a weaving loom, B the drive shaft, C the pitman and D the filling 'fork grate. The

above parts are'of any ordinary or approved.-

construction and hence, no further expianw tion in this regard 1sl required.

E designates the cleaning device, as a whole. Specifically, this device comprises the brush 1, supportingbracket 2 and connecting link 3. The bracket 2, which is substantially of L-shape form, is provided in its depending leg 4 with a longitudinal slot 5.

This leg is adjustably secured to the upper end of the oscillating lever or bar 6, pivoted, as at 7, to the weaving loom frame A and connected at its lower end by the crank 8 and cam or eccentric 9, with the drive shaft B. The above adjustment is accomplished by the `bolt 10 carried by the upper end of the bar Gand the nut 11 screwing on the threaded end of said bolt. The outer end of the upper leg l2 of the supporting bracket is connected by the bolt and nut 13 and 14, respectively, with the inner end of the connecting link 3. The brush l is carried by the outer end of the link 3 and may be adjusted back and forth thereon bythe bolt l5 eX- tending through an elongated longitudinal slot 16' in the link and through a correspond ing transverse opening 17 in the brush head 18. The parts are so timed that the brush l moves in an arc along"-the tines of the fork 'when the fork arrives at the outerend of the arc of its path of movement and as indicated in Figure 1 of the drawing, which keeps the same free of any dust, dirt or lint accumulations. The brush may be advanced from time to time as the bristles become worn in order that it may perform its work emciently. This adjustment is permitted by virtue of the adjustable connection between the brush and connecting link 3.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the drawings, it is thought that the construction, operation and advantages ot my invention will be readiiy understood without requiring a more extended enplanation.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is z- In combination with a weaving loom having a driving shaft, a filling fork grate mounted for movement in an arc disposed transversely of the axis of the shaft, means operatively connecting the fork grate with the shaft, aork grate cleaning device comprising 'a lever fulcrumed to the frame of brush whereby the latter may be avanced, the loom, means connecting the lever with toward the filling fork grate, the parts being `10 the. shaft and adapted to impart oscillatory so arranged and timed that the brush moves movement to the lever, a bracket carried at in an arc along the tines of the fork when 5 the free end of the lever, a brush, a flat link the fork grate arrives at the outer end of theconnected at its inner end with one arm of are of its path of movement. y the bracket and slot and bolt'connection In testimony whereof I affix m signature. between the outer end of the link and the WILL L. NBLITT. 

